THE SCHWA SOUND (I)

Listen to these pairs of words. Then listen to the sentences and repeat.

1- Woman or women? What time did the women arrive?
2- Dress or address? Where's Kate's address?
3- Manager's or manages? The team manager's well.
4- Teacher's or teaches? The German teaches English.
5- Weight's or waiters? The waiter's heavy.
6- Dancer's or dances? The woman dancer's fast.
7- Officer's or offices? The officer's here.
8- Away or way? Take that away.
9- Driver or drive? What a nice drive!
10- Racer's or races? The races finished.

PARTIES

Listen to some of your partners' points of view about the topic "parties". I'll give you some feedback (look this word up in the glossary of teaching terms if you don't know its meaning) next week.

How children acquire their first language

In this video you can see how a child makes use of the "-s" for the plural instead of the irregular form. What's the name of this natural mistake the child is making? Look up the glossary!